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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Name:CHURCH OF THE HOLY ROOD

List entry Number:1047562

Location

CHURCH OF THE HOLY ROOD

The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County

District

District Type

Parish

Oxfordshire

South Oxfordshire

District Authority

Woodeaton

National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.

Grade:I

Date first listed: 18-Jul-1963

Date of most recent amendment:Not applicable to this List entry.

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UID:246752

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Details

WOODEATON
SP51SW
1/231 Church of the Holy Rood
l8/07/63

GV I

Church. C13; tower C14. Limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; stone-slate and
lead roofs. Nave, chancel, west tower and south porch. C13 chancel has, to
north, 2 lancets and blocked round-headed doorway; to south, one small lancet
remains beside a C13 priests door with 2 orders of roll moulding, and to right
is a C15 window of 2 cinquefoil lights under a label. Nave has, to south, 2
trefoil-headed lancets and a 2-light window converted, in the C15, to a tall
mullioned and transomed window. Small C17 porch with an old studded door
shelters a Decorated doorway with panelled doors. To north is another lancet, a
2-light window with Y-tracery and a blocked door. The west wall has a central
buttress between a trefoil lancet and a blocked lancet. The gable is built up to
form the west wall of the C14 internal tower which has arched traceried
mullioned and transomed belfry openings below a crenellated and pinnacled
parapet. Interior: Chancel has a trefoil-headed piscina, a projecting sedilium
with one stone armrest, and a stone bench, all to south; chancel arch is C14;
western bay of wide nave is taken up with tower set on 2 tall octagonal piers.
Nave roof has remains of C13 coupled-rafter roof, at east end, including a tie
beam with a rare painted doom inscription; rest of nave roof is probably C14
with arched windbraces to the lower purlins. Wall paintings include a large
early C14 St. Christopher, with Norman-French inscription, over the blocked
north door, and contemporary masonry decoration in red over much of the nave
walls. Fittings include C15 benches with 4 fleur-de-lys poppy heads in the nave
and 4 more-elaborate bench ends in the chancel; early C16 screen with painted
linenfold panelling and tracery; C18 panelled manorial pew and reading desk:
late C18/early C19 western gallery. Monuments include a marble wall memorial to
Anne Nourse, died 1669 with Corinthian pilasters and a swan-necked pediment; C17
ledgers; 5 late C18/early C19 hatchments of members of the Weyland family.
(V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.V, pp.316-7; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire,
p.853).

Listing NGR: SP5348611898

Selected Sources

Books and journalsPevsner, N, Sherwood, J , The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 853Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1957), 316-7

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